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Top Eight

Top eight stories for today including a delay in redistricting data from the U.S. Census Bureau has thrown the constitutionality of Virginia’s House of Delegates races into question; The EU’s top court was urged by one of its magistrates to make Poland’s far-right government knock down what he called an illegal system for punishing judges; Colorado faces a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections driven by highly infectious variants and loosening restrictions, and more.

Your Thursday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top eight stories for today including a delay in redistricting data from the U.S. Census Bureau has thrown the constitutionality of Virginia’s House of Delegates races into question; The EU’s top court was urged by one of its magistrates to make Poland’s far-right government knock down what he called an illegal system for punishing judges; Colorado faces a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections driven by highly infectious variants and loosening restrictions, and more.

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National

1.) An attorney representing former Alabama judge Roy Moore was AWOL from a Thursday morning court hearing on his effort to disqualify the federal judge presiding over Moore’s $95 million defamation suit against Sacha Baron Cohen.

This clip shows former Alabama judge Roy Moore in a 2018 interview that turned out to be a comedic ambush for the Showtime series "Who Is America?" Disguised at right as an Israeli counterterrorism expert, Sacha Baron Cohen demonstrates a gadget that he says will beep when waved at a pedophile. (Image courtesy of Showtime via Courthouse News)

2.) An assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s National Security Division expressed his concern over the rise of cybersecurity threats on Thursday afternoon, warning U.S. adversaries are ramping up online attacks.  

(fancycrave1/PixaBay via Courthouse News)

Regional

3.) A delay in redistricting data from the U.S. Census Bureau has thrown the constitutionality of Virginia’s House of Delegates races into question.

The Virginia State Capitol is seen on a chilly morning in January 2020. (Courthouse News photo/Brad Kutner)

4.) Colorado faces a fourth wave of Covid-19 infections driven by highly infectious variants and loosening restrictions.

A mural on Broadway in Denver, Colorado in April 2020, celebrates frontline workers treating people with Covid-19. (Courthouse News photo/Amanda Pampuro)

5.) Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed a controversial voting reform bill on Thursday, prompting an immediate lawsuit challenging the new regulations governing vote-by-mail eligibility and rules around ballot drop boxes.

Surrounded by lawmakers, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis speaks at the end of a legislative session on April 30, 2021, at the Capitol of Florida in Tallahassee. (Wilfredo Lee/AP)

6.) Opening another new front in a “drug war” that seeks to hold a growing variety of secondary businesses accountable for the addiction crisis, Massachusetts filed a lawsuit Thursday against an advertising and communications agency that helped drug maker Purdue Pharma to promote opioids.

This June 17, 2019, file photo shows 5-mg pills of Oxycodone. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic, File)

International

7.) The European Union’s top court was urged Thursday by one of its magistrates to make Poland’s far-right government knock down what he called an illegal system for punishing judges.

Police stand outside the Supreme Court in Warsaw, Poland, on May 6, 2021, while the court’s disciplinary chamber examines the case of a judge. (Czarek Sokolowski/AP)

8.) Marking the second-longest punishment it has ever given, the International Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced a Ugandan man who commanded the Lord’s Resistance Army to 25 years in prison. 

Dominic Ongwen, a former senior commander in the Ugandan rebel group Lord's Resistance Army, appears at the International Criminal Court for a hearing confirming the charges against him on Jan. 21, 2016. (ICC via Courthouse News)
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